Principal Platform PM: Scale & Reliability for 100M Users

Scrolllaunch; United States; On-site; USD 179,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Vision

Equity

401k

Retirement Match

PTO

Learning Budget

Home Office Stipend

Wellness

Job summary

Life360 is a family safety and location-sharing app used by tens of millions of families in the US. This Principal Product Manager role oversees the infrastructure and platform reliability for a consumer mobile app serving nearly 100 million monthly active users.

You will lead the strategy for system health, observability, and scalability, own platform architecture decisions, set KPIs, and drive an infrastructure roadmap to support next-order-of-magnitude growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with staff or principal-level scope.
• Track record in platform/infrastructure for high-scale consumer tech.
• Fluent in performance engineering and observability practices.
• Ability to drive alignment across large, matrixed engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Platform strategy for fault tolerance and capacity buffers.
• Company-wide platform KPIs and observability standards.
• Systemic risk mitigation (location quality, performance).
• Infrastructure roadmap to support next-order-of-magnitude growth.

Skills

Platform/infrastructure leadership

Observability & monitoring

Performance engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Life360 is a family safety and location-sharing app used by tens of millions of families in the US. This Principal Product Manager role oversees the infrastructure and platform reliability for a consumer mobile app serving nearly 100 million monthly active users.

You will lead the strategy for system health, observability, and scalability, own platform architecture decisions, set KPIs, and drive an infrastructure roadmap to support next-order-of-magnitude growth.